Pianist, composer, and improviser Donal Fox is offering a new collaboration with renowned poet Quincy Troupe. The two are reuniting for the first time since their work together on Donal Fox's 1997 album Gone City (New World Records), which The Green Mountain Jazz Messenger described as "Powerful vernacular poems of African-American experience. These are not only enhanced by Fox's keyboard and string embroidery, but in effect turned into songs... Fox is an astoundingly swift and alert collaborator, and his running pianistic commentaries reinforce Troupe's impassioned delivery of his works." The new program, Star Spangled Banner Fractured, is a vehicle to inspire, educate, and fuel dialogue in the critical fight for social justice in America.
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Donal Fox & Quincy Troupe: Star Spangled Banner Fractured
Donal Fox is an internationally acclaimed pianist, composer and improviser known for his striking musical collages that blend elements of jazz, Latin and classical. Fox was among the performers who joined us in The Greene Space on April 29, 2013 for a concert and conversation about the struggles and triumphs of African-Americans in classical music.
Quincy Troupe, California's first poet laureate and award winning author of eight volumes of poetry--most recently "Errancities" (Coffee House Press, 2012)--reads current work at Beyond Baroque Literary / Arts Center, Venice, CA (3/31/12) ~ Video by www.Poetry.LA
"The Star-Spangled Banner Fractured" by Donal Fox Donal Fox, piano www.donalfox.com Commissioned by The World Music Institute and Thomas Buckner Interpretation Series Merkin Concert Hall, New York November 16, 2000 Leonellis Music (BMI) Star-Spangled Banner Fractured. I wrote this piece in November 2000 in protest to the "selection" of George W.
Artist: Quincy Troupe, Kelvyn Bell , Hamiet Bluiett For more info on Quincy Troupe visit http://www.thenu-artseries.org/soundart.htm Visual art work by: Tom Sleet
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